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Re:75½ Bedford Street by LeonM on Wednesday February 26, 2020 @11:01AM (#22424136)
In many countries it's common for an entire apartment building to have a single number (or one number per floor) and then a letter for the individual apartments (1A, 1B, 5C, etc).

There may also be an addition of multiple letters. For example: in the Netherlands it is not uncommon to see a number like '45 bis' or even '45 bis B'.

'bis' is latin for 'twice', indicating that the building was split into 2 separate houses at some point in time.

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Re:75½ Bedford Street by swiley on Wednesday February 26, 2020 @11:20AM (#22424357)
My parents live on a subdivided lot and the letter at the end is used as a decimal component of the house number:

Neighbors up the road have 1234A and my parents have 1234B.

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Re:75½ Bedford Street by evanb on Wednesday February 26, 2020 @11:08AM (#22424227)
When I moved to Germany I was staying in an AirBNB. The instructions were to just "Ring [Name on doorbell]". When I asked what the apartment or flat number was, it was an alien concept---the host just gave me the address again.
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